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When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Companionship
Dog
Relationship
Persons
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Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.
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Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up.
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... But then again, a person could turn ugly. Their actual look could change when their actions were repulsive.
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One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.
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The hurt affects your ability to go forward.
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A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be someone's honey, baby, sweetheart.
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You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.
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Empathy took the edge off, and the truth is, we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us, and we are too, too good at shutting it up.
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You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless
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Maybe I was being too picky. Maybe I didn't want to be close to anyone. Maybe I'd just be the type who couldn't feel love all the way or something. I couldn't tell what was wrong, but what was wrong was that it just wasn't right.
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Just because it turned out bad, doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant.
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Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.
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But an apology too — you think you’re giving something, but you’re not. You’re really asking for something. You’re asking for forgiveness, you’re asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.
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I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives you some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the most surprising thing.
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I've wished for things and never really had the chance...It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then...go.
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The favorite game of temperamental people is Try to Guess Why I’m Ticked Off. (Contestant number one, Why do YOU think he’s pissed off? Why, I’m not sure, Bob, but I’m going to go with ‘Because I Left the Faucet Dripping.’ BEEP. I’m sorry, that’s incorrect. The correct answer is: ‘Because You Happen to Exist.’)
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I put the guitar back in the case. I can't even look at it anymore. Instead, I want to make brownies. I want an end result there's a recipe for. I want to combine eggs and water and oil and chocolate and flour and sugar and vanilla and get something fulfilling.
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Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.
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The most true-love words are not the ones that grasp and hold and bind you, twisting you both up together in some black dance. No, they are ones that leave you free to stand alone on your own solid ground, leave him to do the same, a tender space between you.
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I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.
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